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Brass horary Gunter’s quadrant
17th/18th century
Hammer price: £1,400
Cameras and Scientific Instruments
Toovey’s hold a specialist auction of Cameras and Scientific Instruments every other month. Early plate cameras and vintage cameras and their lenses are regularly included, with brands such as Leica, Franke & Heidecke, Nikon, Pentax and Canon featuring regularly. Scientific instruments encompass early sextants, quadrants, compasses, microscopes, microscope slides, telescopes, barographs and theodolites from the 19th and 20th centuries.
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